Death of racing legend Fred Winter, aged 77. Racing is in mourning with the news that Fred Winter, one of the most successful jump jockeys and later to become a Champion Trainer, died yesterday at a hospital in Swindon, aged 77.Winter, who was robbed of his speech and confined to a wheelchair after suffering a stroke in 1988, was rated the greatest jump jockey of the 20th century in the Racing Post´s ´A Century of Racing´ series in 1999 while he filled third place in the trainer´s equivalent a week later.As a jockey, Winter won almost every race worth winning, including two Grand National wins, two Gold Cups and three Champion Hurdles while he was Champion Jockey four times in the 1950s.His training career, which began in 1964 and ended with his illness in 1988, brought him 1,557 wins in 24 seasons and eight Trainers´ Championships. The list of his big race successes is long and includes Grand National successes with Jay Trump (1965) and Anglo (1966), four Champion Hurdle successes (Bula, 1971 & 1972, Lanzarote 1974 and Celtic Shot 1988) a Gold Cup win in 1978 with Midnight Court, while Crisp (1971) provided him with a Champion Chase win.
